Sami Ahmad Khan

Star Warriors of the Modern Raj (eBook, PDF)

Materiality, Mythology and Technology of Indian Science Fiction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

India is mutating - and its Science Fiction with it. Star Warriors of the Modern Raj is a critical catalogue of contemporary India's anglophone SF, a path-breaking work that flits between texts, vantage points and frameworks. An alternative to a Eurocentric perspective of SF, this study avoids essentialising definitions and delves into how the world of SF (text) intersects with that of the writer/reader. Fusing paradigms of Science Fiction Studies, South Asian Studies and Postcolonial Studies, among others, the book explicates how India and its SF negotiate one another. It evolves a 'transMIT thesis' to analyse how mythology (M), ideology (I) and technology (T) contour Indian SF and its fictional reimaginings. This study identifies the manifestations of divine beings within SF as differing epistemological categories, locates the modes of marginalisation within Indian popular imagination as altars of alterity, before proceeding to analyse how newer technologies engage with socio-political anxieties in and through SF.

Interested in learning about Science Fiction and South Asia? Click on the link below to read Mithila Review interview with Sami Ahmad Khan where he discusses his upcoming volume Star Warriors of the Modern Raj. https://mithilareview.com/ahmad_03_21/

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Wales Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786837639
• Artikelnr.: 67582977

Autorenporträt

This will appeal to the generic reader interested in India, its society and literature (SF), academics and students who are interested in literary and culture studies, Postcolonial studies and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to the general readers wanting to know about the links between mythology, politics and technology in India's Science Fiction.